Author: arigo
Date: Fri May 30 14:16:12 2008
New Revision: 55421
Modified:
pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
Log:
Write down some typical Debian Linux packages that are known to be
required for a PyPy translation.
Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt
==============================================================================
--- pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt (original)
+++ pypy/dist/pypy/doc/getting-started.txt Fri May 30 14:16:12 2008
@@ -580,6 +580,11 @@
cd pypy/translator/goal
python translate.py --gc=hybrid --thread targetpypystandalone.py --allworkingmodules --faassen
+Dependencies: this will compile all supported built-in modules, some of
+which have external dependencies. On a Debian Linux, for example, you
+need to install the following packages: a full C compiler like gcc;
+``python-dev``; ``libffi-dev, libz-dev, libbz2-dev``.
+
This whole process will take some time and quite a lot of memory (around
1GB). It creates an executable ``pypy-c`` in the current directory.
The ``--gc=hybrid`` option means that the ``pypy-c`` will use our own